kaimeregy
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Example: When a person drinks the water from this fruit, it does not seem very sweet. The local name refers to “expired,” meaning that the fruit has expired and therefore the juice is not very sweet
Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kawasawas
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Example: This variety is not good for making a canoe as the wood is too soft
Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kipori ia tasiapen
kiri
kwanei
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Example: Hardwood, for carving. For building house posts. If wood is dry when it is wet outside, this wood will light and burn faster than any other wood (due to high sap content).
Scientific name: Guettarda speciosa, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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mahk ~ mak
[the spelling "mahk" was transcribed by Goerg Forster on Capitain Cook’s 1774 visit t]
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mai táhapwar
makhum
marao
mark kwakwa
namatamai
napkapy
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Example: Leaves are used as pig feed to make them grow faster. fed to pigs to make them grow faster. Various butterflied can also get stuck on this plant, so bird’s can also get stuck when trying to eat these insects and can then be hunted or collected.
Scientific name: Pisonia umbellifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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natehi
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[nate̤hi̤j]
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Example: Children from Tanna and throughout Vanuatu use this plant to make a slingshot. As a "medicine," when chickens are ruining your garden, if you plant this plant it will chase away the chickens.
Scientific name: Ervatamia orientalis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nawawa
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[nəwowa]
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Example: Agricultural: When in flower, taro (Nerei) is said to be ready for harvest.
Scientific name: Metrosideros collina, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nawes
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[nawes]
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Example: Fruit used for local medicine. When a person is diagnosed with "cancer" in the local hospital, take a ripe fruit in a cup of water and macerate it until the smell of the fruit comes out in the water, drink every other day, 3x daily, morning noon and night. Also used for firewood.
Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nefeng
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Example: Stem to make house posts. Put fruits in with sweet potato when planting to enable the sweet potato to yield a good crop.
Scientific name: Macaranga, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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niar
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[nijer]
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Example: Wood is strong and good to make houses with, particuarly house posts. Also good for firewood.
Scientific name: Casuarina equisetifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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niar
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Example: Wood is hard to make house posts. Stem to make bow for hunting birds, fruit bat.
Scientific name: Casuarina equisetifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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noukuanei
nusumanu
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Example: Children collect young leaves to decorate their exercise books in school. If a person does not want to get too drunk on kava, they will chew 3 leaves before drinking, and spit out remains while swallowing the juice. This plant has the power to reduce effects of Kava.
Scientific name: Adiantum diaphanum, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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pagaivii pitew
parangi akwes
penesu
penesu
rango
ros
ruareng
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Example: To treat constipation, squeeze a handful of leaves into a half cup of room temperature water, and 10 minutes later the bowel will move. It is said to taste nasty.
Scientific name: Clerodendrum inerme, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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tasiapen
tera
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Example: If a person gets cut while on reef, take leaves and burn them to an ash. Put this powder on the sore for one day to dry and heal cut. For constipation, take 1 handful bark, mash it, put with coconut water (one coconut’s worth0, and drink a cup once. Don’t do other activites. This will clear bowel within a day. Very powerful.
Scientific name: Excoecaria agallocha, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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tuai
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Example: 1. Pidgeons ear the fruits. 2. The wood, being pliable, is used to fashion the limbs of hunting bows. 3. The bole is used as posts in western style houses.
Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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tuprepai
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[tuprapwej]
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Example: The wood of this tree makes good house posts and is also used as firewood
Scientific name: Claoxylon, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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utu pitew
yesu
yesu
ɨnteta